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small or moderate in size, usually gray. Reniform, moderate, upright, centrally 

 constricted, usuallj'- obscure, rarely paler in part. In the median space there is 

 usually a more or less obvious powdering of mossy yellow scales at the outer portion 

 of the cell and in the sub-median interspace. Secondaries dull yellow, smoky at 

 base and along inner margin, in the female with a dark discal lunule, a narrow 

 blackish extra-median line and a broad blackish outer border; fringes yellow; be- 

 neath, yellow. Primaries paler, outer border blackish with a black discal spot. 

 Secondaries with a black discal spot, an incomplete extra-median line and a 

 narrow blackish border. 



Expands 1.00-1.16 in. = 25-29 mm. 



Habitat: Newfoundland (Mr. Owen Bryant). 



Over fifty exampk s, taken at light, and sent unpinned in layers of cotton. 

 There are few antennae, and legs are at a premium; but many of the speci- 

 mens are otherwise in good condition, and the series is excellent to determine 

 the constancy of the type. They range from almost ash-gray with black 

 transverse lines to almost black with gray lines, the terminal space being 

 always contrasting, and relieving the irregular s.t. line. The secondaries 

 tend to become suffused, and examples of both sexes are almost uniformly 

 washed with black. The mossy yellowish shading is a decidedly variable 

 quantity. 



Anarta squara nov. sp. 



Head, thorax and abdomen blackish, the vestiture of head and thorax more 

 yellowish, somewhat intermixed with white. Primaries dull smoky brown, more or 

 less gray, and black-powdered. Basal line distinct, single, black, rather diffuse. 

 T.a. line black, single, diffuse, almost upright to vein 1, and then outwardly bent to 

 inner margin. The space between basal and t.a. line may be gray-powdered. T.p. 

 line more or less lunulate, evenly outcurved over cell and scarcely drawn in below 

 it, accompanied outwardly by paler lunules and a more or less traceable defining-line. 

 S.t. line even, pale, preceded by blackish or dark spots or shadings. A series of 

 black or dark terminal lunules. The dark fringes narrowly pale cut. Orbicular 

 large, irregular, oblique, incomplete, concolorous, or paler. Reniform large, upright, 

 centrally constricted, incomplete, more or less marked with pale. Secondaries dull 

 yellowish, smoky along inner margin, with a broad blackish outer marginal band and 

 a blackish discal lunule. Beneath, all wings whitish to a broad black marginal band, 

 and all with a distinct black discal spot. 



Expands 1.30-1 .38 in. = 32-34 mm. 



Habitat: Greenland. 



Two males and one female. The female is more uniform in color, and 

 has no white shadings. One male is much like this, but the median space 

 is darker, the lines are better marked, and the paler shadings are more obvi- 

 ous. The other male has the basal and terminal spaces and the ordinary 

 spots mottled with gray in which mossy yellow scales are intermixed. A 

 somewhat defective female from Colorado may be referable here. 



